Re: English and its influence on other languages (was: Re: Aboutlinguistic (in)tolerance)

>        Another thing that happened to me some years ago. I used to study
>German
>with a "Teach Yourself German" book. It happened that I met Germans during
>my holidays, and we became friends. One evening, a friend of their, a
>German girl who could not speak French, came for the week-end. They talked
>to her in German, and I realized that I understood nearly everything that
>they said, whereas I never had studied oral language (I hadn't bought the
>cassettes with the book)! The strangest thing is that I wasn't able to say
>even a short sentence in German! I was able to understand it, but not to
>speak it. Strange, isn't it?
non. = nrml.
memor! module.